Hannah some times its actually women in the industry which are the problem.
Occassionally in one job I had we had work experence kids coming into the office about 16-17.
I came back in from the morning shift to find one poor girl in ops reading a cabin crew manual waiting for the chief Hostie to pitch up. I finished up my paper work and started chating to her. Turned out that the woman who was sorting them out in ops had pushed her into the office with ops and the boy that she was with got sent out to the hangar.
After a couple of questions I found out that she wanted to be a pilot. So gave her a tour of the hangar and aircraft then took her as a second pair of eyes for a taxi for an engine run for the engineers in the FO's seat and although paper work she was the scribe for the data sheet for the engine runs.
Seemed to enjoy herself and a week later she turned up with her dad for a trial flight at the local school which I did. Don't know if she took it all the way to commercial.
Last edited by mad_jock; 18th Dec 2012 at 12:23.